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Well, i have an idea on how to use Amazons EC2 Service, but not sure how well it will work. the idea is fairly simple. Podcasting/Video Casting distribution network using BitTorrent. Since S3 already supports BitTorrent support, you upload the file to your S3 account. once there, you post the link to the torrent file in a RSS Feed, which is being monitored by your EC2 servers. they then download and start seeding your file, and keep seeding the file till you tell them to stop.

Here's a sample Ruby on Rails application running on EC2 along with some background information from its creator.

Ubuntu is open source and free. It comes with loads of free software, including OpenOffice which users have told me will do most anything Microsoft Office can do. It too is free.

What if instead of the classic scenario of a small group of founding programmers starting up a company, and then looking for money, the investors themselves get into the game directly? The costs of bootstrapping a web company have been drastically reduced – to the point where almost any cash strapped student can do it nowadays. This is of course based on cheap hardware and web hosting hosting, simplified programming languages and tools like Ruby on Rails and most importantly the maturing market where 55% of the US has broadband access and more and more people are figuring it out what to do with it.

I signed up tikirobot.net for “Google Apps for Your Domain” to see what all the fuss is about. It’s pretty cool! You get mail from Gmail, calendaring from Google Calendar, and Google Talk, and Google Page Creator, if you want that. The signup process is pretty painless, given what they’re providing.

I’ve just started new project in rails, and this time got sick trying to recollect what I need to do in order to setup svn:ignores. This is no special task, but I do it not so often to remember it. Best would be write nice script or rake task.

If TV has been so engrained in our culture, what does the BitTorrent revolution (around 2004) means? What can we infer when corporations decide to take action by targeting TV Download Sites (mid 2005)? They were obviously nervous about how much attention was being taken from them. It took a gutsy move by Apple (Oct 2005) to admit that there was no going back to the television set and that content producers had to find ways of leveraging the Internet as the new distribution channel.

Writely - the site I most wanted to get invited to (besides Gmail) has just accepted an invitation provided by these guys. If you noticed the test posts (which I deleted a short while ago) You know I was playing around with the ‘Publish to Blog’ feature Writely brilliantly provided. I cannot express enough how happy I am that this feature works.

It’s rare, in this day in age, to hear of a business that doesn’t have some type of website presence. Some hire website designers. Others do it themselves. With so many software programs out there, creating your own website can be simple and fun. However, you need to avoid making mistakes that can turn potential customers off your website. Here are three common mistakes:

I’ve thought a lot recently about how extensible an app like Firefox is, and that it conceivably could actually be the only piece of software I’d need. With extensions, Greasemonkey and AJAXy web apps, it could work.

When you use XMLHttpRequest to fetch or send data, you create methods or functions to act as callbacks. At some point the callbacks are run, and data magically appears into your classes. That feels a lot like threading to me, the fact it’s asynchronous. I remember reading Thomas Fuchs saying something about JavaScript being single-threaded, a quick search found the comment: [Rails-spinoffs] Ajax.Request synchronization (onSuccess beforeonComplete?).

I mentioned in my last post that the thing I learned the most from at BarCampRDU was leading a session. The session was simply titled Intro to Ruby on Rails. Here’s the thing, and I think Ryan Daigle summed it up nicely: leading a session is different than giving a presentation. I chose to give a presentation and would have been better off leading a session.